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Mix Cellini is obsessed. And not just with the supermodel he’s been stalking. He’s also endlessly fascinated by the life of Reggie Christie, the infamous serial killer hanged fifty years ago.

So when things get difficult—his snoopy landlady and her friends watch him with growing suspicion and the object of…

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Ruth Rendell takes characters unlike most I would meet in my daily life and gives me an inside picture of what they do and why they do it. She moves from the point of view of one character to that of another within a chapter, and seamlessly. She builds tension, making us expect the worst, and then makes something even more horrible happen, but it makes sense -- it fits.

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The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

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